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[Charles Suprin <hamaa1vs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ubuntu Developer Folks,

I was not sure where to send this but it seemed more a developer
question than a general ubuntu-hams question. It came up as a bug in
gpredict on another distribution. It seems long term detrimental to
all hamradio apps on the linux desktop.

The desktop standards are changing and for the worse with regards to
amateur radio. Ubuntu 10.10 supports a HamRadio category in desktop
environment.  This was consistent with
<http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.7.html>.
However looking ahead to
<http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html>,
HamRadio is supposed to be associated with network or audio. If ubuntu
enforces this then we will be in the same boat as other distributions
already are.

The concern is that this does not really cover all the amateur radio
software out there. Logging software does not fall under audio or
networking, xlog cqrlog and others come to mind.  Neither does
propagation modeling software or celestial body propagation software.
Further more where does rig control software fit.

Additionally the link to the xdg mailing list for discussion of this
is not working for me.
<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec?action=show&redirect=Standards%2Fmenu-spec>

Is there anyone who knows regularly works with this standards body
would would be interested in furthering a solution for amateur radio
applications?  Does anyone have the right information for the mailing
list? Does anyone know why the HamRadio category was dropped?

Respectfully,

Charles Suprin
AA1VS